Imaging Innovations February 2021 - Innovative Document Imaging

February 2021

This week is Innovative Document Imaging’s 20th year in business. In our first year 2001, the tragedy at the World Trade Center Towers forever changed the world and now in 2021 the COVID 19 Pandemic has sadly taken over 2 million lives and dramatically changed the way we go about our daily routines.

Over the 20 years we have had the privilege of working with excellent clients and organizations to preserve history, back-up records and to design hundreds of portals and record management systems for our clients to access records and perform important research. IDI wants to thank our excellent staff (many who have been with IDI for 15 years or more) for their dedication, hard work and vision that has enabled IDI to reach this important anniversary and we will continue to do all that’s possible to deliver successful imaging projects for the next 20 years.

Some of the notable projects we have completed include:

The Gilder Lehrman Collection

East Brunswick TV, NY Historical Society Gilder video

A unique archive of primary sources in American history. It includes more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, books, photographs and ephemera that document the political, social and economic history of the United States. Including: A draft of The Declaration of Independence 1776, The Thirteenth Amendment 1865, An image of Abraham Lincoln’s Thirteenth Amendment, February 1, 1865 containing the article, resolutions and names and signatures of all the Senate and House of Representatives who participated in its creation and Christopher Columbus’ Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella 1493.

Evolution of Flight

IDI working on location at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Virginia imaged over one million pages of material in several languages from the National Air and Space Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution Archives and the National Air and Space Museum Library, Smithsonian Libraries. It sketches the lives and contributions of aviation’s pioneers, scientists, promoters, businessmen, barnstormers, racers, designers and manufacturers and aces (from World War I to Iraq). It is a treasure trove of images, personal papers, and commemorative memorabilia. Topics covered include the first theories and experiments of early flight, inventions, air races, the fighter pilot, African Americans and aviation, women and aviation, the evolution of aerial weaponry, navigational technology, landmark altitude and long-distance flights, Germany’s WWII jet program, the Cold War aviation race and America’s current air fleet.

Fukushima Nuclear Reactors

When a tsunami hit Japan in 2011 and the nuclear reactors were melting down, IDI received a call from a US Marshall requesting assistance. The tsunami had washed out all the Japanese computers and paperwork on nuclear containment. It turned out General Electric who built the reactors had all the necessary information on microfilm located in Chicago. The microfilm was delivered by a US Marshall to our East Brunswick facility the next day and IDI employees volunteered to work 72 hours consecutively to digitize and upload 1 million images on containment to the Japanese Government.

Royal Geographical Society

A digital archive collection of over 150,000 maps, charts and atlases representing the world’s largest privately held collection of maps, world gazettes and original manuscripts. The collection dates back to the 15th Century and contains some of the most influential geographers of the last two centuries have contributing to the collection. IDI has digitized over one million images from the archive at the Royal Geographical Society.

IDI Hosted Webinars for Libraries and Educators

IDI has recently hosted educators and librarians from all over the world in a series of live webinars around how to get started with digitization. Titled “Transforming your Physical Archive into a Digital Space”. These webinars were well attended, and we are now sharing the videos with our community. Check out the videos below and as always contact us anytime with follow ups or any questions on how to get started with your next digitization project.